> >>From: "JG or DF"
> >>Circadian cycles have been noted in animals, and I suppose some form of
> >>this basic material coordination can be expected in humans as well.
> >
> >Are you unaware that these were first discovered in human beings several
> >decades ago, and have been extensively researched since?

Somewhat more aware of this than you perhaps are lacking in an ability
to discern obvious irony.

Take it from someone who has several degrees in theology and classics
and is a specialist in Late Antiquity that Origen was not a gnostic.
Some of his christological views were later thought (albeit mistakenly)
to be dangerously near some views espoused by some gnostic sects and
were out of concordance with the accepted orthodox views of the later
oecumenical councils, hence he was condemned. The Gnostics were a group
of weirdoes who believed in all sorts of odd tomfoolery. Origen was much
to bright ( = he had too much gnosis, knowledge) to be one of those,
and I have read much in Origen. Your source is a popular book, which
often contain errors: caveat emptor!
Should you wish to pursue the matter at leisure, I would recommend:

and Simonetti, Manilio, Orig ne: Trait des principes, Sources
Chr tiennes, Paris, voll. 252,253,268,269, Paris, Cerf, 1978-80. (from
which you will be directed to the other dozen or so volumes of the works
of Origen in the SC series, Gk. tx with French comm and trans)